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Sources: this year's iPhones will be thinner with same size displays, lose headphone jack, have improved water resistance; big changes expected for 2017 models — Tech giant plans to break with tradition of overhauling its design every two years; headphone plug likely to disappear
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| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
Ditching iPhone headphone leaves room for a larger battery, isn't about thinness or DRM; Apple has proven itself at timing the removal of legacy ports — Nilay Patel, “Taking the Headphone Jack Off Phones Is User-Hostile and Stupid”: … And let's compare them to arguments against removing floppy drives from the iMac in 1998.
| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Removing headphone jack from phones is something that no one is asking for and has serious drawbacks including poor compatibility and accessibility, DRM audio — Another day, another rumor that Apple is going to ditch the headphone jack on the next iPhone in favor of sending out audio over Lightning.| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Windows 10 phones get NFC support as Microsoft rolls out update to Wallet, available to Windows Insiders now, will be generally available late summer — Microsoft is starting its rollout of tap-to-pay to certain U.S.-based Windows Insiders; general availability in the U.S. is ‘later this Summer.’| Tom Simonite / MIT Technology Review: |
The kernel of iOS 10 preview released last week was not encrypted, puzzling researchers — When Apple announced a new version of its mobile operating system in San Francisco last week, executives boasted of features such as a smarter Siri and improved copy and paste.
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| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Burner, the disposable phone number service, launches Ghostbot, a bot that autoresponds to unwanted texts to discourage conversations — Dating is a bleak, bleak endeavor. Between seemingly endless swipes, missed IRL connections, and no one being emotionally available, it's dark out there …
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| David Katzmaier / CNET: |
PlayStation Vue live TV service now available on Roku, hits Android devices next week — The app for Sony's live TV service, which offers a variety of TV channels nationwide starting at $30 per month, is now available for download on Roku streaming sticks, boxes and TVs, with an Android mobile app coming soon.| Wall Street Journal: |
Document lists deals with media firms and celebrities for Facebook Live, totaling $50M+ on nearly 140 contracts; BuzzFeed is highest paid at $3.05M for one year — Nearly 140 contracts with video creators total more than $50 million — Facebook Inc. is paying an array of media companies …
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Twitter trolls are outing atheists and pro-LGBT women in repressive regimes — In Kuwait, the penalty for blasphemy can be a severe as death. That's why a new campaign to dox young Kuwaiti women with independent minds is so dangerous. — A band of Twitter trolls alleging …
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Unicode 9.0 now available with 7.5K new characters, six new scripts, 72 new emoji, and support for lesser-used languages — Version 9.0 of the Unicode Standard is now available. Version 9.0 adds exactly 7,500 characters, for a total of 128,172 characters. These additions include six new scripts and 72 new emoji characters.
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| Jordan Novet / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft brings Docker Datacenter to Azure Marketplace, shows off SQL Server in a Linux container — Microsoft today is announcing new capabilities for running applications in containers — an alternative to more traditional virtual machines — both on its Azure public cloud and in companies' on-premises data centers.
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| Michael Riley / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Clinton Foundation among organizations breached by suspected Russian hackers, government investigators find — Trump, Democratic camps said briefed on effort to steal data — Democrats hire security firms to confirm ID of attackers — The Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation … | Brent Kendall / Wall Street Journal: |
Supreme Court upholds USPTO rules that have helped challenge questionable patents — Affirms quicker and cheaper procedures for contesting patents in front of Patent Office — WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court on Monday blessed new government procedures for challenging patents …
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